- Mar 25, 2007
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My DH, DS, and myself went to the Susquehanna River today. It's in PA. Well all we got was wet. LOL
The Suskie?
Crikey. They got mutant fish in there. Things with three heads and five tails that go oooga-oooga-boooga.
I tell you the truth, I used to TA microbiology labs for my undergrad university, and our campus was right up across the road from the Suskie. We would teach the students how to do environmental sampling from the Suskie, and have them isolate out all the bacteria. One year, this one guy found a very unusual Enterobacter that we couldn't quite ID positively, so he took it on as his senior research project to do the species ID genetically and characterize the phenotype. He found a whole new species that was barely within the realm of the Enterobacter genus, which was resistant to every single class of antibiotics AND mercury. He did the epidemiology and traced it back to a part of the river where raw sewage was being dumped directly into the river. When the local municipality (Wilkes-Barre, but they couldn't decide if it was the city or the township's responsibility) was notified, they responded, "Yeah, that happens sometimes, but we can't afford to fix it."
Jeez Louise. You want a nice spot to fish in NEPA, I tell you, drive on out to Rickett's Glen and you can just grab two-foot catfish right out of Lake Jean. That water is daisy-fresh and clean as the driven.
The Suskie?
Crikey. They got mutant fish in there. Things with three heads and five tails that go oooga-oooga-boooga.
I tell you the truth, I used to TA microbiology labs for my undergrad university, and our campus was right up across the road from the Suskie. We would teach the students how to do environmental sampling from the Suskie, and have them isolate out all the bacteria. One year, this one guy found a very unusual Enterobacter that we couldn't quite ID positively, so he took it on as his senior research project to do the species ID genetically and characterize the phenotype. He found a whole new species that was barely within the realm of the Enterobacter genus, which was resistant to every single class of antibiotics AND mercury. He did the epidemiology and traced it back to a part of the river where raw sewage was being dumped directly into the river. When the local municipality (Wilkes-Barre, but they couldn't decide if it was the city or the township's responsibility) was notified, they responded, "Yeah, that happens sometimes, but we can't afford to fix it."
Jeez Louise. You want a nice spot to fish in NEPA, I tell you, drive on out to Rickett's Glen and you can just grab two-foot catfish right out of Lake Jean. That water is daisy-fresh and clean as the driven.
